Micha, I used some starter code and modified it to fit my situation.

Actually Plu, you may be on to something. Let me comb over my code to see. I have been blaming my character settings, but perhaps it is my tile settings that are the culprit. Thanks for the idea.

Hi, I read up on all the collision detection questions that have been previously posted. None of them addresses my issue, and a lot of the code samples supplied to solve issues are more complicated than I understand. I am working on an a simple 2D shooter game, set up sort of Mario style. My charact...